linux-kernel - Smaller compressed kernel source tarballs?

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Message-Id: <1158870777.24172.23.camel@mentorng.gurulabs.com>
Date:	Thu, 21 Sep 2006 14:32:57 -0600
From:	Dax Kelson <dax@...ulabs.com>
To:	Linux kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>
Subject: Smaller compressed kernel source tarballs?

Today as I was watching the linux-2.6.18.tar.bz2 slowly download I
thought it would be nice if it could be made smaller.

The 7zip program/algorithm is free software (LGPL) and can be obtained
from http://www.7-zip.org/ and it is distributed with several
distributions (it is in Fedora Core 6 extras for example).

Here are the numbers:

ls -al
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 240138240 Sep 21 13:55 linux-2.6.18.tar
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  34180796 Sep 21 13:42 linux-2.6.18.tar.7z
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  41863580 Sep 21 13:45 linux-2.6.18.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  52467357 Sep 21 13:13 linux-2.6.18.tar.gz

ls -alh
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 230M Sep 21 13:55 linux-2.6.18.tar
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  33M Sep 21 13:42 linux-2.6.18.tar.7z
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  40M Sep 21 13:45 linux-2.6.18.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  51M Sep 21 13:13 linux-2.6.18.tar.gz

Smaller the better, especially with the international audience.

Dax Kelson

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